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I’m ready to jump into the cold water…

Sunday, February 21, 2010

..that is: I’m ready to test Moodle in up to three of my classes. I’ve taken down my personal website and installed Moodle 1.9.x (weekly whatever) on it.
So far I’ve already started a course for the book I’m reading in an English class. Two history courses (on industrialisation and the First World War) will be [...]

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Collaborating with fridges …

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Have you ever wished you and your students could collaborate online by …

… sticking notes to fridges?
… rearranging those notes?
… commenting on these notes?

I know I have. So I was very excited when Opera Software introduced Unite into their browser.  Unite offers several applications running in your browser. One of them is the Fridge, which [...]

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Reading strategies

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Let’s face it: reading is necessary for learning.
However, reading a text and comprehending or creating meaning from it are two different things.  To help students you can show them various strategies that will help them get along. Quite a number of those strategies have been collected here. Some even with videos!

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Moodle for 2nd language and history teaching

Monday, January 25, 2010

This book (Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching) seems to be exactly what I was looking for. Strangely, there are no reviews on Amazon for it yet. The contents are impressive, as is the price tag: a hefty €35-40.
The book is promoted in the Moodle Language teaching community and probably worth the money, so I’ll [...]

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